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BY JENNY BROWN On October 5, 2013, NWL leaders assisted with and attended the Shulamith Firestone Women’s Liberation Memorial Conference on What Is to Be Done, organized by Redstockings in New York City. Participants were asked to answer two questions…

Tell the Food and Drug Administration: Side with Women and Girls, Not Drug Companies. Put All Forms of the Morning-After Pill Over the Counter.  In June 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally put Plan B One-Step® over the counter without…

Morning-After Pill Goes Over-the-Counter By Allison Guttu, Alexandra Leader and Jenny Brown For over ten years, grassroots feminists with National Women’s Liberation — including the lead plaintiff Annie Tummino — have been waging the most important fight in decades to…

Listen to NWL organizer Allison Guttu, one of nine NWL feminists arrested at a sit-in at the FDA, on NY's WBAI news regarding recent victory on the Morning-After Pill.   Photo above: Allison Guttu speaks in front of the HHS offices…

Obama Backs off Morning-After Pill, Drops Appeal! Feminists win access to the Morning-After Pill for all women and girls in the U.S!  Ten years of speakouts, consciousness-raising, petition gathering, phonebanking, flashmobs, sitting-in, and putting pressure on the Food and Drug…